Project for the New American Century

An Introducion to Project for the New American Century Project for the New American Century [PNAC] is a neo-conservative think tank with strong ties to the their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.” Several original PNAC members, behind such a conflict. The names of every prominent PNAC member were on a letter delivered to American Enterprise Institute. PNAC’s web site says it was “established in the spring of 1997” as “a non- including Cheney, Khalilzad and the Bush family, have ties to the oil industry. Many other members President Clinton in 1998 which castigated him for not implementing the Act by driving troops into profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership. The Project is have been long-time fixtures in the U.S. military establishment or Cold War “strategic studies,” Baghdad. PNAC has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to a Hussein opposition group called the an initiative of the New Citizenship Project; the New Citizenship Project’s chairman is William Kristol including Elliott Abrams, Dick Cheney, Paula Dobriansky, Aaron Friedberg, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Iraqi National Congress, and to Iraq’s heir-apparent, Ahmed Chalabi, despite the fact that Chalabi and its president is Gary J. Schmitt.” Formed in 1997, with roots in the 1992 Pentagon, PNAC’s Ikle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John R. Bolton, was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in prison on 31 counts of bank fraud. original 25 signatories were an eclectic mix of academics and conservative politicians, several of whom Vin Weber, and Paul Dean Wolfowitz. It should not be surprising, therefore, that while the group Chalabi and the INC have, over the years, gathered support for their cause by promising oil contracts have subsequently found positions in the presidential administration of George Walker Bush. PNAC devotes inordinate attention to Iraq, its most general focus has been on a need to “re-arm America.” to anyone that would help to put them in power in Iraq. Most recently, PNAC created a new group is noteworthy for its focus on Iraq, a preoccupation that began before Bush became president and The prospect of mining oil riches may explain part of the group’s focus on Iraq, but this motivation called the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. The Committee has set out to “educate” Americans predates the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In 1998, the group wrote letters to President has been buried under the rhetoric of national security and the need for strong national defense. via cable news connections about the need for war in Iraq. This group met recently with National Bill Clinton, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott (then Senate Majority Leader) and Newt Gingrich (then To justify a need to “rearm” the country, however, reasons must be found. In the more peaceable Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice regarding the ways and means of this education. The Project for the Speaker of the House of Representatives), demanding a harder line against Iraq. By then, the group world of the late 1990s, with no rival super-power in sight, Iraq and “ballistic missile defense” New American Century seeks to establish what they call ‘Pax Americana’ across the globe. Essentially, had grown in numbers, adding individuals such as former Reagan-era U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. against “rogue states” were the main games in town. The group’s links to advocacy for ballistic missile their goal is to transform America, the sole remaining superpower, into a planetary empire by force Kirkpatrick, and long-time Washington cold warrior Richard N. Perle. According to William Rivers defense came through Donald Rumsfeld, who in 1998 chaired a bi-partisan commission on the “US of arms. A report released by PNAC in September of 2000 entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses Pitt, “Two events brought PNAC into the mainstream of American government: the disputed election Ballistic Missile Threat” and Vin Weber, a registered lobbyist for Lockheed Martin and other Fortune codifies this plan, which requires a massive increase in defense spending and the fighting of several of George W. Bush and the attacks of September 11th. When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men 500 companies. According to a February 27, 2003 editorial by William Rivers Pitt, PNAC has been major theater wars in order to establish American dominance. The first has been achieved in Bush’s who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the agitating since its inception for a war with Iraq. PNAC was the driving force behind the drafting and new budget plan, which calls for the exact dollar amount to be spent on defense that was requested by Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, passage of the Iraqi Liberation Act, a bill that painted a veneer of legality over the ultimate designs PNAC in 2000. Arrangements are underway for the fighting of the wars. September 11, 2001 Taliban-Afganistan Pipeline Defense Planning Guidance Project on Transitional Democracies National Security Council Lockheed Martin 2000 Presidential Election L.E. Lehrman and Co. NATO Abrams Kellogg, Brown & Root Bennett Rebuilding America's Defenses Weekly Standard Halliburton Jeb Bush Fox News Kagan Lehrman Libby Bradley Foundation Rumsfeld Center for Security Policy Zoellick Ikle Dobriansky Project for the New American Century JINSA Donnelly Perle New Citizenship Project Olin Chemical & Munitions Scheunemann Schmitt Iraq Contracts Woosley Wolfowitz Kristol Jackson Cheney George W. Bush Mellon Industrial, Oil, & Banking Center for Strategic and International Studies Committe for the Liberation of Iraq Council on Foriegn Relations Bush Administration American Enterprise Institution Current American Policy Gulf Oil Scaife Foundation John M. Olin Foundation Bush Doctrine PEOPLE on Terrorism, which produced the Report of the National Commission on Terrorism in June 2000 in policy, has informed friendly Persian Gulf nations that the defeat of Iraq in the 3-year-old war credible NGOs.” Ralph Nader responds with “What they are condemning, with vague, ironic regulatory National Security Council [NSC] was “established by the National Security Act of 1947 also (PL 235 DOCUMENTS + DEALS Abrams, Elliott was appointed to the National Security Council by George Walker Bush. He served as for President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ Prior to joining CSIS in 1988, Fred Ikle was Undersecretary with Iran would be ‘contrary to U.S. interests’ and has made several moves to prevent that result.” nostrums proposed against dissenting citizen groups, is democracy itself.” - 61 Stat. 496; U.S.C. 402), amended by the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. Bush Doctrine: Released September 20, 2001; “Preemption, rather than reaction” summarizes the Assistant Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan. Abrams is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, of Defense for Policy in the Ronald Reagan administration and Director for the U.S. Arms Control 579; 50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.). Later in 1949, as part of the Reorganization Plan, the Council was placed Bush Doctrine which congealed in the wake of a conservative and national backlash against the weakening Project for the New American Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ He is associ- and Disarmament Agency (1973-1977). He also cochaired the bipartisan Commission on Integrated Scheunemann, Randy was Trent Lott’s National Security Aide and an advisor to Donald H. Rumsfeld on Center for Security Policy [CSP] was founded in 1988 and states that it operates as a non-profit, non- in the Executive Office of the President.” ¶ The National Security Council is the President’s principal of the United State’s power and security in the world. ¶ Also attributed as the “Wolfowitz doctrine”, and ated with the Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East. He has ties to the Hudson Institute and the Long-Term Strategy, which published Discriminate Deterrence in January 1988. In 1975 and 1987, Iraq. Scheunemann is president of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the partisan organization committed to the time-tested philosophy of promoting international peace forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security detailed in the National Security Strategy Document promulgated by the junior Bush’s administration, Center for Security Policy. ¶ Abrams was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1991, Abrams Ikle received the highest civilian award of the Department of Defense, the Distinguished Public Service Project for the New American Century. ¶ Scheunemann is the treasurer at the Project on Transitional through American strength. ¶ A very influential organization with the Center for Security Policy is advisors and cabinet officials. Since its inception under President Harry S. Truman, the function of it promotes use of unilateral preemptive force and persuasion rather than honest multi-lateral coop- was indicted by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor for giving false testimony before Congress in 1987 Medal; in 1988, he was awarded the Bronze Palm. Democracies ¶ Randy Scheunemann founded Orion Strategies LLC in 2001 to provide strategic plan- the Center’s National Security Advisory Council, whose members hold senior positions with the Bush the Council has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies. The eration. ¶ There are numerous similarities between the Bush Doctrine and it’s predecessor, Rebuilding about his role in illicitly raising money for the Nicaraguan Contras. He pleaded guilty to two lesser of- ning, communications, policy, and government affairs consulting services to corporate, government, administration. ¶ Center for Security Policy has strong ties with the Republican party with many mem- Council also serves as the President’s principal arm for coordinating these policies among various America’s Defenses.

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